A.Word.A.Day--bedswerver

This week we feature a potpourri of words. We opened a dictionary, shook
it gently, and these words fell out. They came in all shapes, sizes, and
senses. They're short and long. They're flighty and grouchy. Call 'em what
you will, a medley of words, a farrago, or a gallimaufry. They're disparate,
they're diverse. They are varied and variegated, unclassified and unsorted.
And they're all ready to serve.

bedswerver (bed-SWUR-vuhr) noun

An unfaithful spouse.

[From Old English bedd (bed) + sweorfan (to rub, to file away).]

-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

"I knew that she was a bedswerver, aiming to sweep out from her hubby's
cot into mine."
Richard Flanagan; Gould's Book of Fish; Grove Press; 2002.

X-Bonus

Infidel, n. In New York, one who does not believe in the Christian
religion; in Constantinople, one who does. -Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914),
[The Devil's Dictionary, 1906]